Oh, I respect his viewpoint -- he's a net good for the world -- however he's also kind of a crank.
To be clear though, it was that zealotry, attacking any piece of software that isn't under a license such as the GPL that I was poking fun at. I think it's naive to think that we'd be where we are now if literally everything was 'free' via something similar to a GPL license.
It's a lot like that APK guy, I use his host file. But I'll still poke fun at him coming out of the blue to spam the shit out of a thread.
So what you're saying is.. the Dice crew and the Yahooligans get together, drink Balmer tier amounts of booze, then stay up all night playing laser tag -- and in the pale light of a hungover morning; push changes to production without testing?
will it work better than google voice? I heard about the forwarding for text and voice.. and thought to myself "hey, now i can get a burner phone and not even pretend to care what the number is" But alas, horrible call quality and every 5th text was silently dropped:(
One could also make the argument that by preventing smaller wars, you set the stage for larger, more disastrous ones. The 100 years or so prior to WWI set the stage for both world wars.
Trying to suppress instability seems to smooth things over in the near term, but when it does (and it will) blow up, the result is far messier than if things had been left alone to resolve themselves.
This is just getting out of hand. Not to get into the "War on Christmas" Fox News bit.. but really guys? What "holiday" are you really talking about? =/
i had a pair of those as well, the sound was good, battery good, water proof status - excellent. But man, they were uncomfortable. I tried all 3 of the included ear buds, and they'd either fall out on a whim, or make my ears so sore I couldn't wear them again for a week. Finally gave up on them and went back to my non-water proof Motorola 'Buds' (with predictable, shorted out results.)
Gave the plantronics to my sister, who has no such issues with the fit; so perhaps I was just unlucky.
I do. Are you one of those mongoloids who'd wear studio style headphones to the gym?
The wireless is even better -- finding a set of bluetooth headphones that are a) comfortable b) water proof/resistant is a monumental challenge. Something like this negates the need for a bulky(ish) battery, decreasing the weight -- thus making them more comfortable and smaller.
Would it perhaps be better to take sharp kids straight out of HS who have the interest and the aptitude, and give them 2-3 year internships where they learn 'on the job'?
(I'm a web guy, so I'm not sure if that style of training would carry over to things like embedded systems.)
Man.. the person i replied too pointed out the causality issue... are kids who are apathetic more likely to smoke pot, or does smoking pot make them apathetic... it's same issue surrounding the 'gateway' drug argument.
The kids who start out smoking pot, and then move to more potent drugs are most likely responding to a thrill seeking/risk taking aspect in their personality -- and would wind up engaging in equally risky/poorly conceived behavior regardless of their relationship to marijuana.
In other words, the 'gateway drug' argument is total bullshit.
What if we extend this line of thinking to driver-less cars? If certain behavioral patterns are detected (such as driving to the liquor store 3x) should the car have a moral imperative to NOT take the person to buy booze?
(On aside, I'd feel better with the robot fetching a drink for an alcoholic -- than the alcohol driving themselves (this is before driverless cars mind you) to the store to buy more.)
"But sir, it will take one hundred billion billion billion gorillian Brazilian computational years to brute force that key" "Fine, we'll just ask congress for more money and data centers"
I don't want you fucking around with my 'shopping experiences'. Please, please do not sell my eyeballs to advertisers and claim (even with a wink and a nod) that you are somehow doing *ME* a favor.
Also Slashdot has some crazy smart people posting, but that intellect is very domain specific and tinted by an insanely high level of naive, unrealistic libertarianism.
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Impossible, have you use Apple's mapping ?? He would have likely found the Bismarck had that been the case.
The only point I was trying to make is that people waste money on things with absolutely no payoff, all the time.
Given the meager cost, and extremely high payoff (albeit incredibly rare odds) there are far more illogical things people spend money on. =/
Leave it to the autists as always to not see the forest for the trees.
is it?
Downside: fixed at losing 1 dollar, it's a known, quantifiable risk. and a trivial one at that. -- 1 lost dollar.
Upside? millions.
or go with "daniel day lewis-ing' and you don't have to do anything!
Oh, I respect his viewpoint -- he's a net good for the world -- however he's also kind of a crank.
To be clear though, it was that zealotry, attacking any piece of software that isn't under a license such as the GPL that I was poking fun at. I think it's naive to think that we'd be where we are now if literally everything was 'free' via something similar to a GPL license.
It's a lot like that APK guy, I use his host file. But I'll still poke fun at him coming out of the blue to spam the shit out of a thread.
PS: I feel like a dunce for misspelling his name.
So what you're saying is.. the Dice crew and the Yahooligans get together, drink Balmer tier amounts of booze, then stay up all night playing laser tag -- and in the pale light of a hungover morning; push changes to production without testing?
will it work better than google voice? I heard about the forwarding for text and voice.. and thought to myself "hey, now i can get a burner phone and not even pretend to care what the number is" But alas, horrible call quality and every 5th text was silently dropped :(
One could also make the argument that by preventing smaller wars, you set the stage for larger, more disastrous ones. The 100 years or so prior to WWI set the stage for both world wars.
Trying to suppress instability seems to smooth things over in the near term, but when it does (and it will) blow up, the result is far messier than if things had been left alone to resolve themselves.
go home Stalman, you're drunk.
don't always agree with ya , but yep. this is the exception =/
Hype is, and always will be, hype. People have not changed -- gadgets come and go.
This is just getting out of hand. Not to get into the "War on Christmas" Fox News bit.. but really guys? What "holiday" are you really talking about? =/
i had a pair of those as well, the sound was good, battery good, water proof status - excellent. But man, they were uncomfortable. I tried all 3 of the included ear buds, and they'd either fall out on a whim, or make my ears so sore I couldn't wear them again for a week. Finally gave up on them and went back to my non-water proof Motorola 'Buds' (with predictable, shorted out results.)
Gave the plantronics to my sister, who has no such issues with the fit; so perhaps I was just unlucky.
I do. Are you one of those mongoloids who'd wear studio style headphones to the gym?
The wireless is even better -- finding a set of bluetooth headphones that are a) comfortable b) water proof/resistant is a monumental challenge. Something like this negates the need for a bulky(ish) battery, decreasing the weight -- thus making them more comfortable and smaller.
did they apply for a .evil TLD too or something?
Would it perhaps be better to take sharp kids straight out of HS who have the interest and the aptitude, and give them 2-3 year internships where they learn 'on the job'?
(I'm a web guy, so I'm not sure if that style of training would carry over to things like embedded systems.)
Don't go posting facts and reason in a MS 2 minutes hate session. Next thing you know they'll accuse you of being a Redmondite.
Man.. the person i replied too pointed out the causality issue... are kids who are apathetic more likely to smoke pot, or does smoking pot make them apathetic... it's same issue surrounding the 'gateway' drug argument.
The kids who start out smoking pot, and then move to more potent drugs are most likely responding to a thrill seeking/risk taking aspect in their personality -- and would wind up engaging in equally risky/poorly conceived behavior regardless of their relationship to marijuana.
In other words, the 'gateway drug' argument is total bullshit.
it's not like we have publicly funded universities that were setup for basically this purpose (okay, for agriculture -- but same concept.)
because sea water is very very corrosive, especially in regards to metal (turbines)
what is logic and reason doing on my slashdot? what do you think you're doing here exactly sir?
What if we extend this line of thinking to driver-less cars? If certain behavioral patterns are detected (such as driving to the liquor store 3x) should the car have a moral imperative to NOT take the person to buy booze?
(On aside, I'd feel better with the robot fetching a drink for an alcoholic -- than the alcohol driving themselves (this is before driverless cars mind you) to the store to buy more.)
"But sir, it will take one hundred billion billion billion gorillian Brazilian computational years to brute force that key"
"Fine, we'll just ask congress for more money and data centers"
See also: gateway drugs.
I don't want you fucking around with my 'shopping experiences'. Please, please do not sell my eyeballs to advertisers and claim (even with a wink and a nod) that you are somehow doing *ME* a favor.
Also Slashdot has some crazy smart people posting, but that intellect is very domain specific and tinted by an insanely high level of naive, unrealistic libertarianism.
Correct for that, and you're golden.